Description
Goals: After reading through the material above, you should be able to address the following questions:
- Be familiar with the content of each of the sections in Article 3.
- What special relationship does the judiciary have with the legislature? the executive?
- How do federal judges get their jobs? Why? What connection do they have with the electorate?
- How political is the federal judiciary?
- How long do federal judges and justices hold their offices? Why?
- What is standing? What does this concept tell us about the jurisdiction of the courts?
- What does Article 3 tell us about trial?
- What features of Article 3 are intended to make the judiciary independent from the other branches?
- Why is so much attention given to treason in Article 3?
- Why was it decided, by members of the constitutional convention, to establish a national judiciary?
- Why does the court have its current shape? Why are there nine people on the Supreme Court? Who makes those decisions and why?
- What is Law? What is Equity?
- Who sets the agenda of the courts?
Description
Goals: After reading through the material above, you should be able to address the following questions:
- Be familiar with the content of each of the sections in Article 3.
- What special relationship does the judiciary have with the legislature? the executive?
- How do federal judges get their jobs? Why? What connection do they have with the electorate?
- How political is the federal judiciary?
- How long do federal judges and justices hold their offices? Why?
- What is standing? What does this concept tell us about the jurisdiction of the courts?
- What does Article 3 tell us about trial?
- What features of Article 3 are intended to make the judiciary independent from the other branches?
- Why is so much attention given to treason in Article 3?
- Why was it decided, by members of the constitutional convention, to establish a national judiciary?
- Why does the court have its current shape? Why are there nine people on the Supreme Court? Who makes those decisions and why?
- What is Law? What is Equity?
- Who sets the agenda of the courts?